Government
May 24, 2021
Panel hears arguments on definition of ‘budget bill’
“If the court is persuaded to allow the Legislature to, at any time after the enactment of the budget, enact a budget junior bill that has some amendment to the budget … then we’ve opened up a situation in which the Legislature can essentially enact substantive law on a majority vote and have it go into effect immediately,” Thomas W. Hiltachk of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk LLP argued.
To decide whether the Legislature abused the budget process in 2017 to defend Sen. Josh Newman from a recall campaign, a panel of 3rd District Court of Appeal justices spent considerable time questioning an attorney for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association" in a Friday hearing.
The hearing took on two consolidated cases in which, according to the docket, the court must decide, "Does the Legislature ... have authority to amend the...
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